Stable thanks to abundant human resources for football
Japan and Korea are the two leading football countries In Asia alone, Japan holds the number one position on the continent.
Since the first time reaching the final round (finals) World Cup 1998 in France Japan has never been absent at the world championship. In total, Japan has appeared 7 times in a row at the World Cup finals.
Also during the above mentioned period and before that a little Japan has won the Asian championship four times in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2011.
With Korea, this team has reached the World Cup finals 10 times in a row (1986-2022). If you include the participation in the World Cup in 1954, Korea has a total of 11 participations in the World Cup finals.
The number is 11 times in the World Cup finals and 10 consecutive appearances in the World Cup. These Korean tournaments are all Asian records.
Actually, in the process of developing their country’s football, Japan and Korea also had different ups and downs. For example, the fact that South Korea did not win the 2023 Asian Cup championship is a huge disappointment for this football industry.
Koreans are disappointed because their team has many stars. are playing for world-class clubs including Son Heung Min (Tottenham England), Lee Kang In (PSG France) and Kim Min Jae (Bayern Munich Germany) but still cannot win the Asian championship.
They so disappointed that he fired coach Klinsmann (German) and accepted to lose a large sum of money to compensate Mr. Klinsmann’s contract.
But in terms of position Both Japan and South Korea still maintain their status even though they did not win the Asian championship earlier this year. The number of players of these two teams is still abundant and at the same time, no team in Asia dares to confidently claim that they can beat them.
The reason why Japan and Korea have the position This is thanks to their good foundation in training their young players at the best development level in Asia. In Japan and Korea, in addition to the youth training facilities of professional clubs, there are also developed school football systems.
Many professional players in these two countries come from football backgrounds. school. The most vivid example is that the interim coach of the Korean team, Hwang Sun Hong, played in the Korean student football tournament for the Konkuk University team and then played professionally in Europe, Korea and Japan. Ban.
Later, Mr. Hwang Sun Hong played for the Korean team and scored 50 goals after 103 appearances for the team.
Before that, soccer’s greatest player Korean kicker Cha Bum Kun was also a student who played for the Korean University team. As for the captain of the Korean team that won 4th place at the 2002 World Cup, Hong Myung Bo once played for the Dongbuk High School team.
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The source of players from schools is a very abundant human resource. If you know how to take advantage of this source of players, it will almost never run out. Later, Thai football learned from the experiences of Japan and Korea. Thailand also develops school football.
Current Thai team captain Theerathon Bunmathan played for the Assumption Thonburi College team before stepping up Professional and famous playground as it is today.
Top football legend in the land of the Golden Pagoda Kiatisuk Senamuang played school football from 1982-1994 for 12 years. Particularly during the period 1993-1994, Zico Thai played for the Dhurakij Pundit University team.
Not comparable to Japan or Korea on the Asian level, but in Southeast Asia Thailand is a force number one for more than 30 years.
There are also times when football in the Golden Temple country faces low notes like the period from 2017-2021. But in general, they did not fall too deeply and Thai football’s ability to recover is very fast.
The human factor is still the most important. Thanks to good human resources and a good foundation, Thai football has maintained its stability for a long time.
Meanwhile Vietnamese football opposes face the opposite reality. Occasionally, we have a group of excellent players who rise to the top, but this top period does not last long.
Recently, many youth football academies in Vietnam such as LPBank HAGL The Cong Viettel PVF Hanoi FC operates in a disciplined manner, helping domestic football better compete for titles in Southeast Asia more regularly.
But these models need to be further replicated at the same time. We still almost “abandoned” school football. This makes Vietnamese football’s performance still not as stable as Thailand’s and still very far from Japan or Korea.
About how to do youth football in Korea, former assistant coach Park Hang Seo – Mr. Bae Ji Won shared with Dan Tri: “Currently all U13 U16 U19 football teams in Korea are football teams representing schools or privately invested. These football teams participate in many large and small football tournaments organized by the Football Federation or localities. organized.
The largest youth soccer tournament is divided into regions to compete. The final round brings together 64 teams from elementary, middle, and high school levels to compete talent to find the champion team.
The Korean Youth Football Tournament is the country’s largest sports tournament with a total of 576 teams participating since its establishment in 2009 and the number of participating teams is constantly increasing. In 2017, the Korean Football Federation also set a goal of having 1,000 participating teams.
Each club participating in the K-League is also required to have a youth team at all levels. These young teams also participate in many tournaments during the year, including two fixed tournaments according to the professional tournament format: round-robin competition (League) and knockout competition (Cup).
In addition In Korea, there are more than 1,000 university football teams that are systematically organized and operate regularly. These teams also compete in the League Cup every year like the K-League youth teams.
As for the K-League national championship, it is divided into 7 divisions. K-League 1-2 is the tournament. Professional K-League 3-4 is semi-professional K-League 5-6 is amateur tournament for businesses while K-League 7 gathers spontaneous clubs.
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